The Archive · 1939

Godowns Fall of Munitions

Mr. Kaneko stated that bonded warehouses in Rangoon were full of arms and ammunition consigned to China, including "$000 tons of war materials landed froma British freighter on November 6 last year and other supplies landed from many vessels of various nationalities, Arms and ammunition were not being sent to China in large quantlties, he said, because the Chinese were not paying import duties.

'Supplies on which import duties had been paid were' being transported into China by G: ton motor lorries but the highway—between Burma and Yunnan, particularly the strip from the border to Lashio, terminus of the Burma Railway, was rot completed and' consequently leully was being experienced, Mr. Kaneko. stated.

He said reports were heard that arms consignments in transit often were seized by bandits in western Yunnan—Domel, Inflation in Japan Unavoidable

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